Siteframe

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Community

Siteframe encourages the growth of online communities by allowing members to upload and edit site content such as pictures, articles, links, and files.

Members can optionally comment and rate site content and communicate with one another via email.

You can keep in touch with regular newsletters automatically generated by the website.

Content

Siteframe automatically takes care of sizing images appropriately and creating thumbnails.

The site administrator determines the kinds and types of content that will be supported.

Different types of content can be linked to one another by using simple macros.

Management

Siteframe allows you to design the appearance of your website by separating content from presentation. Pages can be designed using any HTML editor and a simple set of replacement templates for content.

You can change the appearance of any page or message generated by Siteframe by simply editing the appropriate template.

Would you like to play with Siteframe? You can visit the Playground to try out a live Siteframe website. Since this site is for production use, please don't post "testing" messages here; use the Playground (separate registration required).

Siteframe is a lightweight content-management system designed for the rapid deployment of community-based websites. With Siteframe, a group of users can share stories and photographs, send email, and participate in group activities. Siteframe enables this by providing web-based content management, so that anyone can create content without needing to learn HTML. Click here for more detailed information on Siteframe and its capabilities. Siteframe is OSI Certified Open Source Software. You can view the License Agreement for Siteframe <3.1 here.

Release 3.2.2

The latest release of Siteframe, Release 3.2.2, is now available. This release contains fixes to allow Siteframe to work under PHP5 and some (more) bug fixes to allow for secure operation when PHP's "set_global" option is OFF (the recommended setting). This release is mandatory if you're using PHP5, and recommended for others. This release contains fixes for the known Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability.

SECURITY ADVISORY

Siteframe releases prior to 3.2.1 have security holes that could leave your site vulnerable. Please see Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability for information on the problem and manual fixes you can make without the need to install software updates. You can be informed of future product releases and security announcements by subscribing to the siteframe-announce newsletter at http://siteframe.org/mailman/listinfo/siteframe-announce.

Siteframe Q&A

What can I do with Siteframe?
Create a corporate intranet application where your employees can share documents, diagrams, and files. Make a weblog where you and your friends can contribute stories, pictures, and links. Build a community-service site that's easily updatable by your office staff. Make your forms and papers available as PDF documents on the web so that you don't need to mail them. In short, you can build any type of website with Siteframe; it especially excels at sites with lots of different kinds of content.

What kinds of content does Siteframe support?
Siteframe supports articles (mostly text web pages), images (JPEG or PNG format), files (any kind of uploaded file), links (Internet page URLs), and Polls (multiple-choice voting boxes).

What do I need to run Siteframe?
Siteframe has been developed on a Unix or Linux system running the Apache webserver, the PHP language, and the MySQL relational database system. Some users have reported success running Siteframe on Windows 2000 computers. For more information, see "Required Software."

How do I get it?
Click on Downloads in the left-hand menu to view the available downloads.

How much does it cost?
Siteframe is free! It's covered by a Creative Commons license that requires attribution and "share alike" (i.e., you have to impose the same conditions on anyone you give it to).

Can I use Siteframe for my custom application?
Siteframe is built around an flexible object-document framework that you can easily extend to support specialized document classes. For example, the bug reports on this site are actually a custom extension to the default Siteframe article type. If you need assistance, consulting and development is available.

Mailing List

To subscribe to the Siteframe mailing list, enter your email address and password in the fields provided and press Subscribe. This mailing list is used to provide support for Siteframe administrators as well as to keep you informed of any new releases or product details; it is a low-volume mailing list (usually less than 50 messages per month). Your email address will not be used for any other purpose.
Click here for information on all Siteframe mailing lists

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